# Soure of Pinky & the Brain dialogue **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [April 2, 2015, 7:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/soure-of-pinky-the-brain-dialogue/716644 "2015-04-02T19:03:10Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 7\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![PatriotX](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/c4cdca/32.png) [@PatriotX](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/PatriotX)\ **Post date:** [April 2, 2015, 7:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/soure-of-pinky-the-brain-dialogue/716644/1 "2015-04-02T19:03:10Z")
episode named Brainania Brain says: I’ll address them in the primitive argot of the south seas. **Me number-one fella. Other fella number 10. Catchy all same-same. You savvy** It seems as though it’s parody of something. But where’s it from? ---
**Author:** ![Trinopus](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/2bfe46/32.png) [@Trinopus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Trinopus)\ **Post date:** [April 2, 2015, 9:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/soure-of-pinky-the-brain-dialogue/716644/2 "2015-04-02T21:04:31Z")
It’s a spoof of “[Pidgin English](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pidgin),” a simplified form of English that colonial masters taught to slaves and other subjects. Chop chop fella get longa back to work or nogood come longa him. ---
**Author:** ![Master\_Wang-Ka](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/master_wang-ka/32/3325_2.png) [@Master\_Wang-Ka](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Master_Wang-Ka)\ **Post date:** [April 2, 2015, 9:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/soure-of-pinky-the-brain-dialogue/716644/3 "2015-04-02T21:16:14Z")
And here I was thinking it was a takeoff on Orson Welles’ infamous frozen food commercial. ---
**Author:** ![Smapti](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/smapti/32/17938_2.png) [@Smapti](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Smapti)\ **Post date:** [April 2, 2015, 9:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/soure-of-pinky-the-brain-dialogue/716644/4 "2015-04-02T21:34:33Z")
> [@Master\_Wang-Ka](#): > > And here I was thinking it was a takeoff on Orson Welles’ infamous frozen food commercial. [No, that would be this one.](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7uWW--w4SRs) ---
**Author:** ![PatriotX](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/c4cdca/32.png) [@PatriotX](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/PatriotX)\ **Post date:** [April 3, 2015, 11:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/soure-of-pinky-the-brain-dialogue/716644/5 "2015-04-03T11:12:21Z")
> [@Trinopus](#): > > It’s a spoof of “[Pidgin English](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pidgin),” a simplified form of English that colonial masters taught to slaves and other subjects. > Chop chop fella get longa back to work or nogood come longa him. Yeah, I got that. It just seems like it may have come from a movie or another show. It seems an allusions of some sort. ---
**Author:** ![Indyellen](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/indyellen/32/4176_2.png) [@Indyellen](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Indyellen)\ **Post date:** [April 3, 2015, 5:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/soure-of-pinky-the-brain-dialogue/716644/6 "2015-04-03T17:47:03Z")
> [@Smapti](#): > > [No, that would be this one.](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7uWW--w4SRs) Interesting side note here. I heard a Nerdist podcast with Andrea Romano, the voice director for PaTB. Apparently Maurice LeMarche used that Orson Wells bit as his soundcheck/warm-up all the time, and Andrea asked the writers to make an episode out of it. He didn’t know until he got there for recording. 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Trinopus](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/2bfe46/32.png) [@Trinopus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Trinopus)\ **Post date:** [April 3, 2015, 9:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/soure-of-pinky-the-brain-dialogue/716644/7 "2015-04-03T21:42:39Z")
> [@PatriotX](#): > > Yeah, I got that. > > It just seems like it may have come from a movie or another show. > It seems an allusions of some sort. Oops; sorry. I couldn’t tell the degree of specificity. If it is something direct, I don’t know it. > [@Master\_Wang-Ka](#): > > And here I was thinking it was a takeoff on Orson Welles’ infamous frozen food commercial. > [@Smapti](#): > > [No, that would be this one.](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7uWW--w4SRs) I watched **Smapti** ’s link first, and mildly enjoyed it. Then I went out and listened to [Orson Welles’ actual commercial outtakes.](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V14PfDDwxlE) Holy Hannah! That makes the “Pinky and the Brain” sequence poisonously delicious! I’d never known of this, and am so happy to have seen the spoof first: it makes the actual clip so much more preposterous and fatuous!